The politician who co-ordinated a protest over plans to turn the former Nude Dunes restaurant into self-catering tourist accommodation says he still stands ready to bring a motion to the States asking the government to negotiate a purchase of the controversial site.
St Brelade Deputy Montfort Tadier said he had a draft proposition “ready to go if it’s necessary”.
The shuttered La Pulente site was briefly home to Nude Dunes, which went bust in November 2023 just months after opening its doors.
In July, a fresh bid by the property’s owner Nadia Miller to have the majority of the building converted into self-catering holiday accommodation was rejected by the Planning Committee.
That decision came just over a month after Environment Minister Steve Luce upheld the Committee’s refusal of a previous iteration of the scheme.
It recently emerged that enforcement notices had been served in relation to the alleged creation of a “self-contained residential unit” and erection of a “modular building and wooden fence” at the site.
A protest co-ordinated by Deputy Tadier last year saw almost 300 people gather at the beach to “show support for the protection of La Pulente and the wider coastline from privatisation and overdevelopment”.
The St Brelade representative has previously said that there is “a case for the States to consider purchasing it for the public”.
On Friday, he told the JEP that he had “a draft proposition ready to go if it’s necessary, about the potential for asking government to step in to buy the site”.
He explained that “the option would be for the government to negotiate with the owner to buy it at a fair price and if that’s not possible, look at the compulsory purchase option”.
But Deputy Tadier emphasised that this would be a “backstop” and that “ideally this would be a private transaction between a business and the owner”.
The JEP attempted to contact Ms Miller for comment.
